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David Wroe, Defence Correspondent
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has dramatically stepped up Australia's condemnation of Moscow over the flight MH17 tragedy, accusing it of trying to use humanitarian help as a pretext for an...

David Wroe, James Massola
Tony Abbott acknowledges that 50 Australian police officers sent to London may face 'difficulty' securing MH17 crash site as armed pro-Russian militiamen maintain their grip on the war-torn area.

James Massola, David Wroe, Judith Ireland
Prime Minster Tony Abbott has lashed the ''absolutely shambolic'' situation at the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, as he dispatched former defence force chief Angus Houston as his...

David Wroe
Australian air crash investigators are headed to Kiev where they will team up with Dutch, British and possibly American counterparts but will have to wait until there is a guarantee of safety from...

David Wroe
The first Australian suicide bomber in Iraq killed three people in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday, an extremist group has claimed, raising the involvement of local jihadists in the spiralling...

Lindsay Murdoch, David Wroe
Philippine authorities are treating Australian religious extremist Musa Cerantonio as a "high risk and high value" prisoner but he is set to walk free after his imminent deportation to Melbourne.

David Wroe, Mark Kenny
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will use a historic visit by Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Tuesday to issue a veiled warning to Beijing not to let its territorial disputes with neighbours threaten Asia's...

David Wroe
Australia's most notorious jihadists fighting in Iraq have issued a macabre threat to Australian soldiers as their ranks received a boost from a prominent Melbourne-born preacher who has joined them...

Sarah Whyte, David Wroe, Jason Koutsoukis
The United Nations has expressed ''profound concern'' over reports that Australia was poised to hand Sri Lankan asylum seekers back to the country's navy on Thursday after only the briefest refugee...

David Wroe
The Australian commando who died of non-combat gunshot wounds in Afghanistan this week has been identified as 29-year-old Lance Corporal Todd John Chidgey, who was on his sixth tour to the war-torn...

David Wroe National Security Correspondent
The Abbott government is examining ways to make it easier to prosecute Australian jihadist fighters returning from the Middle East, amid growing fears of the creation of a mini-state in the region...

David Wroe
The mystery flight MH370 was almost certainly set to autopilot before it began its journey south, authorities said, as the government announced a new underwater search zone for the wreckage.

David Wroe, Mark Kenny
Most of the Australians fighting with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq are not dual nationals, the Abbott government has revealed, meaning it will be effectively impossible to stop them coming home.

David Wroe
Peter Greste may yet be freed from his seven-year jail sentence but the journalist's chances rest largely on rival bids for influence over Egypt by the US and Saudi Arabia, sources and experts say.